Frederick Ashton, founder of Britain's Royal Ballet

Chicago Sun-Times | August 20, 1988 | Copyright

LONDON Sir Frederick Ashton, founder of the Royal Ballet and as its principal choreographer for 35 years the developer of a distinctive English classical style, is dead at 83.

A spokesman for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, said Mr. Ashton died Thursday night at home in Eye in Suffolk, northeastern England. No cause was given.

He often was called Britain's one authentic ballet genius. Among the 100 or so works he added to the company's repertoire as it became a world force were "Facade," "Les Patineurs," "Wedding Bouquet," "Symphonic Variations," and his own most universally ...

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